Example sentences of "[det] [to-vb] of the " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is little to see of the Potteries at Fenton other than relatively modern factories , but a couple of bottle ovens , now rather rare ( see Longton ) survive near King Street . |
| 2 | Winch 's contention is that to conceive of the relation of an act to the person who acts in terms of the Kantian maxim ‘ acting for the sake of duty ’ is mistaken since ‘ there is no general kind of behaviour of which we have to say that it is good without qualification ’ . |
| 3 | The significance of the allusion to Freud in this famous passage is to suggest that to conceive of the economic as operating in isolation is as illusory as to imagine that the ego can operate without the unconscious : they are both the reciprocal products of the other . |
| 4 | One of the major purposes of this book is to show that there is much in psychoanalytic theory and practice which is social , and that to conceive of the theory as being only about individuals is to misunderstand and misinterpret it . |
| 5 | IWM 's Bevis Griffiths supervised the conservation work on the Firefly , and had this to say of the professional/volunteer team used to restore Z2033 : ‘ The Museum require volunteers for this sort of work because we have some seventy aircraft here at Duxford and six [ full-time ] technicians to look after them , which in anybody 's book is a huge workload , so we work alongside the volunteers . |
| 6 | Perhaps it was too much to expect of the Government to spell out , as many had wanted , who should be trained , to what level and within what timescale . |
| 7 | That would be rather too much to ask of the laws of conservation . |
| 8 | Yet it involved a principle which many could not accept : regardless of the sacrifices demanded of the rest of the community , it seemed too much to ask of the poorest of the poor . |
| 9 | His tent of meeting , the focus of his presence and means of dialogue , is pitched outside the camp , a sign for all to see of the distance now established between him and his people . |
| 10 | In essence , then , there is far less to see of the history of industrial landscapes than there was even a few years ago . |
| 11 | Goals from Jimmy Quinn and Philip Gray — his first for the international team — were enough to see of the Baltic challenge although Denmark 's victory over Albania earlier in the day put paid to our last fading hopes of qualifying for the World Cup finals in America . |
| 12 | We can get rid of much of it by subduction , but certain Orogenic episodes ( notably the Hercynian ) seem to have very little to show of the ocean floor . |